 firefox will now track your searches by default and you'd have no way of knowing they're doing that unless you look for this random blog post on their website: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/ it does look like you can turn it off at least. 41 comments
 @Jennifer @hi_mayank  @doug @Jennifer @hi_mayank OFC! Also I can recommend using @torproject / #TorBrowser as main Browser which does set privacy as strict as can be... @kkarhan @doug @Jennifer @hi_mayank @torproject tor browser as main browser is comically bad lol, its good for when u need ultimate privacy but it horrible for just degoogling, its only good if ur doing illegal activities and need to hide from the government. @paragon @doug @Jennifer @hi_mayank @torproject I sincerely disagree! - Because I only use it for bona-fide purposes and we should normalize that! Websites that work without #trackers, #cookies and #JavaScript are perfectly possible and we should normalize that again! Seriously, there are few sites that don't work that I couldn't replace - yet... Comments like yours can and will be weaponized to criminalize #privacy like #Tor, as @echo_pbreyer can confirm...  @kkarhan @echo_pbreyer Are you not worried about exit node security/tampering/tracking/logging? Most services are not hosted within tor (but should be). @hi_mayank it seems if you spend a decade convincing people that you care deeply about privacy it makes it easier to do this type of rug pull because the entire installed base is thinking "well surely there is a good reason for this, mozilla cares about privacy!" @hi_mayank Yeah, I'm turning off this telemetry as soon as it makes it into a Firefox ESR version packaged for Slackware. If Mozilla wants my data they can do what Nielsen does every time they send me a TV/radio survey: pay me.  I am not enough of an expert to tell, but the blog posts suggests that they are tracking broad catagories of searchs ? far as I can tell, if you want to revert to an older version of FF, the last public version is from Feb 2023 ? https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/99.0b8/ but majorgeeks has version 124 ?? https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/mozilla_firefox_124,2.html @gburin Opa, já desativei aqui! Tá caindo no mesmo problema: a mozilla critica o google por invasão de privacidade, ao mesmo tempo que o google paga para ser o buscador padrão do firefox. @gburin agora, me ficou a dúvida, porque saber se eu vou pra espanha é importante pra fazer um navegador melhor? O que importa saber se eu estou buscando sobre pizza, casa, viagem. O que diabos tudo isso tem a ver com fazer um navegador melhor???!!!! @rnpereira Pensei a mesmíssima coisa! Tá na cara que é pra vender essa info, ficou mais feio ainda tentando disfarçar dessa maneira porca  @hi_mayank WTF Mozilla you were supposed to be the chosen one. You *changed* man... you're one of *them*. Sigh. @hi_mayank I'm very sad to hear about it. Firefox's been having problems with Linux Mint lately, crashing and freezing my system. And now that I've learned about this, I guess I'll finally give it up and start using Chromium.  @hi_mayank @hi_mayank If you need to restrict your data collections to the US, then you know it's a privacy issue :neocat_shocked:  @hi_mayank every day leaves me a little bit more likely to give up computers and return to smoke signals   @hi_mayank@hachyderm.io Once you redefine opt-in to mean "turn on", removing it from the context of defaults, it's so much easier to lie about consent.
 @hi_mayank Firefox will at least take no for an answer… and if that ever changes, I can patch Firefox faster than Chromium. (Firefox is compiled from source in a few hours… Chromium usually takes all day.) @hi_mayank  @hi_mayank More of a reason to use a fork such as LibreWolf as they have none of that crap. @hi_mayank It's worth reading the details of what they are doing. While I don't want to underestimate the potential for doing the wrong thing, they are making legitimate efforts to keep the collected data anonymised that go beyond "trust us". See https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/partnership-ohttp-prio/ for a bit of detail Came to echo this. I tend to give Mozilla some credit. Mozilla's whole reason for existing at this point is that it is a privacy focused alternative to FANG company offerings like Chrome. It would be very foolish of them to do anything creepy with your data. As soon as anyone found out, they would see a loss of their already dwindling pool of users.   @hi_mayank There is nothing new about this and its mentioned on the privacy link you're shown when you first run Firefox. |
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@hi_mayank They are very busy within the whole Mozzilla Foundation. They don't get all their income from partnering with Google anymore. They have their own vision... or version.